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Bold and Broad Brain Scan: It's Not an Either/Or, and No One Said It Was!

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It didn't take long for the blogosphere to use its heralded mind reading abilities to accuse the Broader/Bolder campaign of advancing reforms traditionally outside of the K-12 system at the expense of K-12 reform.

Read the statement. It said no such thing. In fact, the report argues for continued school improvement efforts:

To close achievement gaps, we need smaller classes in early grades for disadvantaged children; to attract high-quality teachers in hard-to-staff schools; improve teacher and school leadership training; make college preparatory curriculum accessible to all; and pay special attention to recent immigrants.

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A golden opportunity for the Obama camp to take down two birds with one stone: a genuinely progressive and robust education policy that avoids the race-baiting of the "education debt" "social justice" crowd; and an opportunity to say goodbye, finally, to Bill Ayers.

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